excel thing....

[Arnold Vibal]

hi. i just want to ask if ms excel really needs a high end pc? like i7 with 8-16gb of ram? let say that the user is so advance, professional or very expert in ms excel. 

 

i need opinion or if you're like expert in ms excel you can share your experience.

 

thank you. 

[RGProductions]

Just now, Arnold Vibal said:

 

For 99% of excel you can get away with anything.

[NoRomanBatmansAllowed]

1 hour ago, Arnold Vibal said:

hi. i just want to ask if ms excel really needs a high end pc? like i7 with 8-16gb of ram? let say that the user is so advance, professional or very expert in ms excel. 

 

i need opinion or if you're like expert in ms excel you can share your experience.

 

thank you. 

Even if they're really good, it's highly unlikely they'll need an i7 with 16GB. 8GB for just excel work is probably too much, though it's considered the norm these days.

[RE_V3RSE]

Even for extremely advanced Excel users who use macros to tie their shoes, high-spec PC hardware won't make a noticeable difference. What does come in extremely useful for major Excel users is having a mobo/GPU which can support 3+ monitors, and some like peripherals with lots of additional keys for macros, which makes entering formulae much faster.

 

Also, a mouse with a horizontal scroll like the MX Master, infinite scroll like the G502 or just a toggle on the mousewheel can come in handy with very large spreadsheets.

[Mark77]

I did an engineering degree on a machine running Excel with only 32mb of RAM.  People before me did it with half or less of the RAM.  So certainly 16gb isn't strictly required.  However, if you're building/buying a modern computer these days, 16gb is a fairly standard configuration.  For the extra few bucks it costs, "just do it". 

[ARikozuM]

Standard word processing builds are usually 4-8GB of RAM paired with an i3.

 

I'm currently using a 4790K, 32GB RAM, 256GB SSD, and GTX 1080 and suffer massive slowdowns so I would suggest at least a Titan X Pascal with 5960X. [/s]

[Arnold Vibal]

thank you for all the response much appreciated. 

[Squish4058]

25 minutes ago, Arnold Vibal said:

hi. i just want to ask if ms excel really needs a high end pc? like i7 with 8-16gb of ram? let say that the user is so advance, professional or very expert in ms excel. 

 

i need opinion or if you're like expert in ms excel you can share your experience.

 

thank you. 

Max I can ever see you needing is an i3
SSD would be way more important and the fact that you should install the 64 bit version of excel

after that maybe ram speed might matter

[LogicalDrm]

Fast storage and 8gigs is good for really huge (10k+ cells) spreadsheets. 4gigs can be laggy.